Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 38)

38 Chapter 2 Bringing Media into Your System
Capture a single clip:
After setting In and Out points and entering logging information, click the Capture
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Clip button.
Capture Clip button
Final Cut Pro rewinds the tape and captures the footage as a media file on your hard
disk. The new clip appears in the Browser.
Log additional clips without capturing them:
Use the transport controls to set In and Out points in another clip that you want to
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capture.
Enter logging information for the clip. Click the Slate button beside a logging field to
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increment the previously entered information by one number.
Click the Log Clip button to log the clip information in the Browser without capturing the
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media on your hard disk. When the Log Clip dialog appears, enter a clip name and click
OK. Final Cut Pro records the clip and its logging information in the Browser. The icon for
the clip has a red bar through it to indicate that the clip is offline, or not yet captured.
Log another clip, setting In and Out points and entering logging information, then
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click the Log Clip button to log the clip information in the Browser. When the Log Clip
dialog appears, enter a clip name and click OK.